African Design Magazine April 2015 | Page 66

i Within our lifetime, the global population is set to grow and change demographics at a rate unseen by previous generations. This puts enormous pressures on all industries but specifically healthcare. Hospitals are already at capacity with a huge strain on resources and expertise, but there is an opportunity to adapt in order to deal with this change in a sustainable and affordable way. By John Raspin, Partner at Frost & Sullivan. W ithin our lifetime, the global population is set to grow and change demographics at a rate unseen by previous generations. This puts enormous pressures on all industries but specifically healthcare. Hospitals are already at capacity with a huge strain on resources and expertise, but there is an opportunity to adapt in order to deal with this change in a sustainable and affordable way. The health and wellness of a community is a collective social responsibility and a cause for which medical technology and Businessto-Society (B2S) business models have a huge role to play. At Frost & Sullivan, we expect that global healthcare expenditure wi ܛ